Amanda Starks

Joined September 2018

210 stories

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Fantasy writer, poet, and hopefully soon-to-be novelist who wants to create safe spaces to talk about mental health. Subscribe to my free newsletter at www.amandastarks.com for updates!

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Within My Pages; My Passion
Dear Amanda, Hello, how are you? It's been a few months since I last felt your gentle fingers brush across my pages. I miss your touch like your walls miss sunlight. You really should open the curtains more - we all enjoy it!
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Fiction
Follow the Line to the Last
Follow the line to the last, This life is all you have to hold. There is no time left to think of the past. . Upon the path your forebearers have cast
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Poets
Precipice Chapter I: The Fall
The first thing Avery Thompson could recall was her body falling through a violent, stormy sky. Below her was nothing but the roiling waves of a disturbed ocean and the shadows cast by each peak and trough. The air was bitterly frigid - slices of cold lanced her cheeks, chest and arms and tangled into her jacket and hiking pants.
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Chapters
Into My Grave
Like the quick descent of death you sweep into my tomb with new intention eyes widening upon the dim sparkle of burial gifts long since rusted
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Poets
Precipice: Dreams of the Fall - Announcement. Top Story - December 2023.
In the year 2285, a mysterious event occurs in which hundreds of bodies wash ashore TRUEcit, the last surviving bastion of human ingenuity and prosperity. Among the bodies is a survivor named Avery Thompson, whose memories of her past and where she came from have become fragmented. Her rescuer, a TRUECorp employee by the name of Nikolai Garcia, offers his aid in her recovery. However, in the wake of this event TRUECorp begins demanding answers, and Nikolai is faced with an impossible choice: will he assist the corporation in its vision for saving humanity from impending doom, or will he risk it all to help Avery reassemble her fractured memory?
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Writers
Sun Killer: Author's Cut
Author's Note: The story you are about to read is the original version of Sun Killer before it was edited down to fit the requirements for Vocal's Under a Spell Challenge. It was already a long piece, so feel free to pace yourself or bookmark this for another time!
By Amanda StarksExclusive • 2 years ago
More Mushrooms
The heavy weight of the staff of frost in Izzoradelle’s hands made her arms shake. Again, she lifted it waist-height, channeling the foreign substance of eitr through her body and onto the cold surface of the wooden handle.
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Fiction
Fantastical Vocal Favorites Vol. 2
Hello, everyone! I'm very happy to have Fantastical Vocal Favorites Volume 2 act as my comeback article after my self-imposed hiatus for the month of November. It was a long month and I missed the community here a lot more than I anticipated.
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Writers
Sun Killer
“Elements of the earth, elements of the sky, please bring us your protective eye. Powers of feather and scale, I summon you. I call upon you to protect me. So it may be.”
By Amanda StarksExclusive • 2 years ago
Cyclical
I've become all too cynical of a life that's supposed to be lyrical now tied up in tension thick as umbilical and drowned in a poisonous chemical.
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Poets
HUMAN
How much do you think you know from surface-level disturbances? Surely you can't understand an image when it is distorted by the ripples cast by too eager hands. Sometimes those little waves turn into tsunamis, and then everyone is drowning in half-truths.
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Poets
A White Mountains Mystery: The Cabin - Chapter 7. Top Story - October 2023. Content Warning.
It's highly recommended that you re-read Chapter 4 by Matthew Fromm as major plot points will be referring back to the content in that chapter.
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Chapters